Sites - Jerusalem: Church of the RedeemerThe Mauristan in Jerusalem (Two Mosques in the Christian Quarter)

Church of the Redeemer in WikipediaThe Lutheran Church of the Redeemer is the only Protestant
church in the Old City of Jerusalem. Built between 1893 and
1898 by the architect Paul Ferdinand Groth (*1859-1955*)
following the designs of Friedrich Adler, the Church of the
Redeemer currently houses Lutheran congregations that
worship in Arabic, German, Danish, and English. The church
also serves as the headquarters of Bishop Munib Younan of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land.
Built on land given to King William I of Prussia (after 1870
Kaiser Wilhelm I) in 1869 by Sultan Abdülaziz of the Ottoman
Empire, the church was constructed from 1892-1898. The
location had been the site of the old church of St. Mary
Minor.[1] In 1898, Kaiser Wilhelm II made a trip to
Jerusalem to personally dedicate the new church.[2] For the
dedication of the church, the Kaiser entered the city on
horse back through to specially made ceremonial arches, one
a gift of the Ottoman Empire and one a gift from the local
Jewish community.[3]. The church was dedicated on
Reformation Day, 1898. At the dedication, Wilhelm said:
From Jerusalem came the light in splendor from which the
German nation became great and glorious; and what the
Germanic peoples have become, they became under the banner
of the cross, the emblem of self-sacrificing charity.
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In the garden next to the church is a memorial marking the
location of the crusader headquarters of the Order of the
Knights of St. John.[5]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Redeemer